Benefits of Online Medical Records Outweigh the Risks- Includes Opposing Quotes from Dr. Deborah Peel

October 9th, 2012

Benefits of Online Medical Records Outweigh the Risks- Quotes Dr. Deborah Peel

Crunch Two Data Sets, Call Me in the Morning

May 22nd, 2012

Patients not given discretion over data-mining of digitized health records despite serious ramifications.

Report: HIEs failing at true interoperability

May 14th, 2012

Report: HIE's Failing at True Interoperability

Paperless Medicine?

January 28th, 2010

Electronic medical records that follow patients from doctor to doctor. Hospitals with instantaneous online access to lab results and health histories. Disease researchers with...

Physician network to use genomic-based preventive healthcare

December 8th, 2008

MDVIP, Inc., a national network of physicians based in Boca Raton, Fla., is collaborating with a personal genomics testing company in an effort to...

EHRs don’t save Texas doc time, money or paper

October 10th, 2008

I can’t stand it any longer! This nonsense that electronic health records will save money must stop! We have a six-man orthopedic group in...

Content of weblogs written by health professionals

October 1st, 2008

BACKGROUND: Medical weblogs (“blogs”) have emerged as a new connection between health professionals and the public. OBJECTIVE: To examine the scope and content of...

IT bill draws concerns

July 28th, 2008

Health information technology legislation passed by a House committee last week is being called a good start in what ultimately is a challenging and...

Our Pen-and-Paper Doctors

June 24th, 2008

With electronic health records seen widely as a way to make medical care better and possibly cheaper, it is disturbing how slowly they are...

EHR sent this physician back to efficiency of handwritten records

June 23rd, 2008

Regarding “EHRs must be made irresistible, but for now are clearly inadequate” (Letters, May 26): I am one of those doctors mentioned by letter...